Bross, G. D.

BROSS, MARTIN

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/13/2013 at 09:50:41

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

BROSS, G.D.—Madison Twp—pg 951. Farmer and preacher, section 29, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born in New Jersey in 1817, where, after finishing his education, he engaged in farming, and, in 1835, was married to Miss Eliza Martin, of the same place, by which union they have two girls and four boys now living. Their oldest daughter died in Brooklyn in 1868. In 1855 Mr. B. and family came to this county and settled on the present site of Brooklyn, being the first white family of the town. He here kept a tavern nearly four years, then engaged in farming near Brooklyn till the spring of 1868, when he settled on his present farm of 240 acres, which is now under good cultivation. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and has spent the greater part of his life in preaching the gospel for the good of his fellow-man. He has filled the pulpit of the Baptist Church in Brooklyn some eighteen months, and has traveled a good deal in Poweshiek and Johnson counties.